Articles tagged with: Nigeria
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RadioPalmwine.com™ is a public community radio program, arts and cultural web site. It’s also an international musical archive for Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora playing Afro-beat Fuji Gospel Highlife Juju and Makossa music live 24/7. RadioPalmwine.com™ also has an artist section and record promotion for new and upcoming artists where artists can upload their songs, sell CD’s T-shirts etc and where listeners can download new artist mp3. You can also make live request of songs in the playlist which will be played immediately in realtime. Check us out now on www.radiopalmwine.com
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Reborn Radio is taking African Hip Hop and R&B to a new height. So if you have an avid interest, love, and passion for African entertainment and/or being wondering when African are ever going to launch a radio station that play real hot African hip hop and R&B music then Reborn Radio is the place to be. Reborn Radio is a community radio station for the Pan African Diaspora community. The station will be launched next month and will serve as the most comprehensive African Entertainment station in the World providing the best music, news, interviews, and reviews on everything from African Hip Hop, R&B and Competition for artists. Still want to know more then check out the site www.rebornradio.com.
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Fuji music is the fast paced sound blazing in the streets of Lagos, capturing the joy, the pain and the energy of the world‘s fastest growing mega polis. Heavy Yoruba drumming, arabesque instrumentation and soaring multipitched vocals blending into a sound that commands attention and forces to dance along. From the homelands of the African nations to the Arab culture to the West and the rest of the world – Fuji is the exiting synthesis of all that mixing, fertilizing and developing happening in Africa at the moment…
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Grammy Award-winning US rap star Ludacris is to headline at MTV base 100th LIVE! in Abuja, Nigeria. Sponsored by Nokia, MTV base 100th LIVE! is an exclusive concert to celebrate the launch of MTV base, MTV’s first pan-African music channel and MTV Networks’ 100th channel worldwide. Talented artists, 2-FACE Idibia, ASA, JJC & 419 Squad, and DJ Jacob will also perform at the concert place on 15 April 2005 at The Congress Hall, Nicon Hilton, Abuja, playing to an audience of up to 2,000 fans. Highlights from MTV base 100th LIVE! will subsequently broadcast on MTV channels around the world beginning on 20 May 2005.
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The long awaited debut E.P of U.S based Nigerian lyrical maestro Fishe is finally out. This highly acclaimed release is on the verge of setting a whole new standard to hip hop from the motherland and set to bridge the gap between Afro-pop and mainstream hip hop. To listen to clips from the Ep and/or purchase the CD visit the music page of the Fishe official website . To view a sample of the album cover click http://fishe.us/fishepress.html
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Nigerian-born, London-based JJC, frontman of Afropean hip-hop outfit JJC & 419 Squad and producer to UK R’n’B stars Jamelia, Liberty X, Big Brovaz and Lemar, looks at the rise and rise of African hip-hop in a new four-part documentary, The Music Feature: Afropop from Monday, 7 March on the BBC World Service (if you missed the first part you can listen to it again with BBC Radio Player online).
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Three African divas, Rachel Magoola, Paulina Oduro and Ayinke Martins, join forces with South African trumpeter Claude Deppa and his 7-piece band for this unique project. Each singer writes lyrics in her own language to music on Claude Deppa’s CD “Toi Toi” (Jika Records). Together they present an African musical project that embraces their many shared cultural history.
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Sola aka Weird Mc is a Performing/Recording Artist, Lyricist, Producer and Composer whose sound is a Hybrid of HipHop/Afrobeat/Club Essence plus anything undefined. Her main influences are Fela Kuti, Missy Elliott, Jimi Hendrix, Angelique Kidjo, Lauryn hill, Tina Turner, Dr Dre, The Neptunes and Lagbaja…